Pascale Diaine

Principal @ Storm Ventures

Pascale is a principal at Storm Ventures focusing on early-stage enterprise SaaS, AI, and AR applied to the B2B world. She made her first investment in the AI space with LiftIgniter providing "personalization as a service”.

Previously, she worked at Orange (the European Telco) where she founded the corporate accelerator "Orange Fab” in San Francisco. The initiative was then adopted by the rest of the corporation with today 12 Orange Fab programs active around the world. Pascale managed 8 seasons of the SF accelerator program involving collaboration with seed stage startups (at the time) like Talkdesk (raised $25M), IUNU (recently raised $6M), and TrackR (raised $50M in series B).

While at Orange, Pascale was named one of the "Top 50 Women in Tech dominating Silicon Valley" by Tech.Co as she was an evangelist for tech startups and generated access to several world-class thought-leaders, influencers, journalists, and emerging companies.

Pascale holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Technology at Compiègne (UTC). She was born in Lille, France.